For five years, Wayne Hankey has cultivated a strong personality as a professor at King's College Halifax. He is now facing allegations of historical sexual abuse cases, and the accusations that have been whispered for a long time are being made public.

This story contains details that readers may feel uncomfortable with, and discusses suicide and sexual assault.

The two of them must look strange.

A 14-year-old boy wore a ponytail and wandered around with an Anglican priest dressed in a full set of clergy.

It was New Year's Day in the late 1970s.

The boy Glen Johnson and Pastor Wayne Hanki wandered the streets of downtown Halifax together to participate in the New Year's embankment.

This should be a celebration, an opportunity to accept the promise of a new start.

But for boys, this is by no means auspicious.

Some memories from the trip to Halifax are deeply buried in Johnson's mind. It wasn't until February this year that those memories surfaced quickly and violently.

Johnson said in an interview at a hospital in Ottawa: "I wanted to commit suicide at that moment, and almost committed suicide," where he was receiving treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

"It's as real to me as it was then."

Hanki was more than just a pastor—he was at the core of King’s College campus at this time, a small liberal arts school at the southern end of Halifax.

For more than 50 years, many of them taught philosophy, classics and theology until his retirement in 2015, he insisted on his existence and carved his legacy.

This Oxford-educated professor comes from an ordinary family in Lower Sackville, New South Wales. He will become a familiar and indispensable part of the king's world, just like the stones and pillars of a building.

According to former students, his charm is epic, although he may be ruthlessly picky. His talent has made him an academic inspiration for generations of ambitious students.

But he also left his life, and these lives will always get worse.

Although rumors and stories about Hanji's misconduct have been circulating on campus for decades, the understanding of some allegations of abuse is limited to the tight circles that are only now loosened.

In February and April of this year, Han Gene, now 76, was charged with sexual assault, indecency and gross indecency in the incidents of three different complainants between 1977 and 1988, some of which allegedly occurred on the King’s Campus.

In every case, he pleaded not guilty.

CBC wrote to Hankey's attorney, Stan MacDonald, outlining the allegations it plans to publish in this report. MacDonald said that many of the allegations were "untrue and inaccurate," but his client "is in court proceedings and is currently unable to comment specifically on the allegations against him."

The criminal charges caused many people connected with the university to question what the administrators knew at the time and what they did (if any) in response.

Stories keep emerging.

If you have information about this story to share, please contact reporter Frances Willick at frances.willick@cbc.ca

Chapter 1: The Presidential Palace

Chapter 3: The boy in the swimming pool

Turn a blind eye to Chapter 5?

Earlier this year, Johnson's terrible memory suddenly came back after reading a news article about the first accusation against Hanki.

In the 1970s, he was a child from East Medway, a small coastal community about 130 kilometers southwest of Halifax. His parents are not particularly religious, but his grandparents are, and he is considering becoming an Anglican priest.

His parish priest, Wayne Lynch, introduced the young altar boy to Hanji, a professor and director of the academic program at King’s College. The program is called the Foundation Course (FYP), which teaches the foundations of Western philosophy and political thought.

Johnson is still young and is considering higher education, but Hanji told him that he was very interested in this project.

Therefore, when the two priests came to his parents' house and asked them to allow him to take him to Halifax for a few days during the Christmas holidays, they did not blink.

"My parents were thinking...what's the problem? We have authority figures, and we have people trusted by our family," Johnson said.

Johnson's parents didn't know that Lynch was far from trustworthy. Their son did not tell them that he had been beaten by Lynch before.

He would also remain silent about what Hanki allegedly did to him during his trip to Halifax.

Johnson believes that he stayed in Halifax for three nights in late 1977/early 1978, living with two priests in the Presidential Lodge at King’s College, where the president of the university traditionally made his home.

He said he was not sure where the then President John Godfrey was, and how Hankey got the key to the house in the corner of the campus.

He remembers the colonial paintings above the fireplace in the bedroom, the big clock near the stairs downstairs, and the big kitchen.

He remembered listening to music in the "amazing" stereo and the bright sun room that stretched from one end of the cabin to the other.

For Johnson, this seems extravagant. He was dazzled.

"This is a poor kid from a fishing community living in a mansion where there is a free flow of wine and liquor-even a 14-year-old kid."

Johnson said that the pastor let him drink alcohol and gin, and one night he woke up to find that his underwear was taken off. He didn't know why.

The other night, he said that he woke up to find Hanji in bed with him, and verbally attacked him. Johnson said it was dark in the room, but he knew it was Hankey because he recognized his voice.

"I don't know what to do," Johnson said. "I was stunned. I was really confused. I don't know, for example, is this something I should do to enter King's College? Is this something you must do when you want to become a pastor?"

Many years later, in 1999, Lynch admitted to sexually abused Johnson and was sentenced to two years of house arrest. Johnson's civil lawsuit against Lynch and the Anglican Church was settled out of court in 2000.

Johnson is not one of the three plaintiffs in the criminal case involving Hanji currently in court. He contacted the police, but they decided not to file charges in June. Johnson said the police told him that because he had confused the names of Wayne Lynch and Wayne Hankey in a written statement, his credibility would be questioned in court.

A spokesperson for the Halifax Regional Police will not explain why it has not filed an accusation, calling it to protect the privacy and well-being of victims of sexual assault, and the police will not provide any information about the investigation.

Johnson said that if his case progresses, he will demand that the publication ban on his name be lifted. He also asked the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to use his name in this story.

He said: "I don't want people to feel that this matter is stigmatized, because it is not our fault."

Stephen Lindsay, a professor of psychology at the University of Victoria who studies memory and conscious experiences, said that if a person avoids thinking about an experience or avoids clues that may trigger the memory of that experience, they will develop the habit of not remembering the event.

Lindsay said: "Someone may have experienced a seemingly very memorable, important, dramatic event, but don't remember it."

Highly unique clues, such as being in a specific place or seeing a photo, can bring back those memories.

Lindsay said that people may also have the wrong memory, mistakenly thinking that something happened, but in fact it did not happen.

"But I think it's unlikely that normal people will react to... such normal clues, which will produce qualitatively wrong memories. I think this is very rare."

Johnson did not go to King's College in the end. He didn't want to be attacked again.

Instead, he studied journalism at the Dutch Academy in Charlottetown, and established a career in newsrooms from Nova Scotia to Manitoba, eventually holding a senior journalism position at Postmedia.

He left the industry in 2011 and worked for a software company in Ottawa until he remembered the incident with Hankey and went to the hospital.

He felt that King's had some sins.

"There was someone out there soliciting potential people for King's-or he was.... He told me I would be a liar... He assured me that I could enter it because he of."

Johnson has contacted attorneys to discuss a civil lawsuit against Hanji and Kim.

"I hope the king will admit that they have a predator. They may not know that he is a predator, but they are responsible for it because they have had to listen to stories over the years."

On February 1, when news of Hankey's first criminal charge came out, King's immediately announced that it would conduct an independent review of this charge. The university hired two Toronto lawyers to determine the facts of any allegations, determine whether King's will take action to ensure the safety of students, and make recommendations on how King's should respond.

The university declined an interview request, saying it wanted to respect independent review and criminal justice procedures.

Johnson spends most of his time in the hospital this summer, occasionally watching movies or veterinary shows on TV, or reading Python books. This is the only reading material he can focus on.

After an interview with CBC, Johnson received electroconvulsive therapy to treat major depression. He returned home in early September but was admitted to the hospital again a few weeks later.

He said that nightmares lingered in his sleep.

He saw Hanji walking towards him along the hospital corridor.

He left his room and wandered in the hallway looking for a nurse, but there was no one there.

Dream in a dream.

"I have nowhere to go, and no one comes to help me," he said. "They can't give you a pill that can solve this problem and take it away. So I will take it to the grave."

If you want to commit suicide or know someone, you can get help nationwide by calling the Canadian Suicide Prevention Service toll-free number 1-833-456-4566 24 hours a day or texting 45645. From 4pm to midnight EST).

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, there are many resources available to help.

If you feel that your mental health or the mental health of your loved one is at risk of an immediate crisis, please call 911.

The tendrils of the sound, the soft piano notes, spread throughout the church. Then his voice began, deep and full.

The world may be a lonely place

There is no warm and familiar face...

Those who had gathered on the benches for the funeral of their friends got goose bumps and tears streaming down their faces when they heard his voice, as if they were coming from a distance.

This can be said to be Richard March's curtain call.

There was a crackle in his voice—it didn't happen a few years ago, before he got sick.

And let me be close to you.

As we all know, March is a musical prodigy.

As a child, one day he decided to learn how to read music. "After a week, he will be able to read," said his brother Peter March.

Before long, Richard's bedroom was filled with music score folders. When he was about 13, he bought himself a music stand and baton, and would enthusiastically direct a room full of imaginary musicians.

In high school, Richard founded the Waegwoltic Chamber Orchestra, a rotation of his high school friends and other kids he knew from the Halifax Citywide Music Project. Woodwinds and string instruments-whoever is free on a particular weekend afternoon-will gather at March's house at the southern end of Halifax to play chamber music together.

The orchestra has performed many times in public, including concerts in the Crousetown community on the south coast of the province.

After graduating from Queen Elizabeth High School, Richard started the preparatory course at King's College. Although his brother Peter said that Richard's personality is not suitable for the show, it makes sense in some respects. Richard is always willing to accept challenges-besides, the director of the project Wayne Hankey (Wayne Hankey) is well known to the whole family.

Peter almost called Hanki a family friend, but he stopped. He is not, not at all.

The March family is a family that goes to church. On Sunday, Bill and Babu’s parents and their children will go to the cathedral in the city center to attend Mass, where Bill will sing hymns. Afterwards, the children would hang out, while their parents drank inferior coffee in the church hall and chatted with priests and other parishioners. Social activities usually last into the afternoon in one house or another.

"It's not surprising or strange that some people-pastors, priests, church members-appearing in social situations as we grow up. This has become part of our way of growing up to some extent," Peter said.

He said that Hanji has a knack for hinting at himself, trying to "mold himself as a friend of his family." He would show up with a newspaper on Sunday morning, sitting in a chair in the backyard, expecting to be invited to have breakfast or lunch.

Peter said that he had a way to get rid of his seemingly weird embarrassment.

"He cultivated this kind of, you know, the god-man of Downish or British intellectuals, right? So he is a bit exotic."

In retrospect, Peter said, "This is like the premise of a horror movie. You can see it coming."

Nearly 50 years after the fact, Peter and his remaining four siblings are unsure of how and where Hanki sexually assaulted Richard.

Most siblings know something—the bits and pieces gathered over the years from conversations with Richard or their parents who both died.

They got together in a recent Zoom conference call, gathered their knowledge and talked about it for the first time.

They knew that this happened in 1973 or 1974, when Richard was 17 years old. They knew that this happened at a concert in Claustown, near the small community of the Little Riviera, where Hankey was ordained as the pastor of the parish. They knew that Hankey and another priest, Wayne Lynch, let Richard drink gin.

At first, Richard was silent. But in the end, he told his parents what happened.

He became depressed and was sent to the hospital for psychiatric treatment. Peter remembered visiting him while he was there, and Richard vaguely told him what had happened.

"He looks terrible, but he doesn't seem to be in trouble, but is deeply hurt and trying to restore some balance, or, you know, overcome the trauma."

Virginia Beaton, a high school friend of Richard's band, said she had heard of the attack from a mutual friend at the time.

"He's always been very, you know, relaxed, energetic, happy—you know, a performer. It seems to really shake him."

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has already spoken to another individual who is independently aware of the attack. Hanji has never been charged.

Within a month or two, Richard became more or less himself-funny, gregarious, and enthusiastic. He left King's College and eventually graduated from Dalhousie University.

Richard pursued life in Toronto and Stratford, Ontario, where he became a regular on the stage of the Stratford Festival.

In 1985, Marion Adler was an aspiring musical actress. When Richard happened to play Donizetti’s sonata for flute and piano, he accidentally participated in a late night cabaret show ——It's just that he adapted it into a vacuum cleaner and a piano, using his lips to make the sound of the vacuum cleaner.

"This is an incredible humor and craftsmanship because it is so ridiculous," she said. "I looked at him and thought,'I want to come to this theater company, I want to work with that guy.' I'm so, just, obsessed."

She got her wish. Adler and Richard-the "hot light" of creative partners-became close friends and artistic collaborators.

Richard became a well-known figure in Stratford, not only in the show business but also in the community. He would play bingo with the locals on Sunday afternoon, and if no one—the mechanic or the shopkeeper—stopped him from chatting, he would not be able to walk on the street.

Adler said that at the time, in the late 1980s, "town people" were skeptical of people in the theater industry, and many people also hated homosexuality. Richard won the support of everyone and became the de facto ambassador for the festival and the gay community, earning the nickname "Mayor of Stratford."

When Richard began to hesitate to go to New York to perform a role she and her husband wrote for him, Adler knew something was wrong.

It started with a cough. Richard's partner at the time, Gerry Valentino (Gerry Valentino) said shortly afterwards that Richard was suffering from full-scale AIDS.

"So our whole relationship is living at that moment," Valentino said in an interview. "He talks about the past, but not a lot, so I really don't know his backstory."

Neither Valentino nor Adler remembered Richard talking about being beaten when he was young. For all his extroverted bubbling, this is something he didn't discuss.

His brother Peter said that Richard had "a ton of personality."

"So, not the shrinking Violet. So, he might be able to absorb the experience without crushing him. It didn't crush him," he said.

"We fully believe that it left him scarred...it hurt him, and it will accompany him for the rest of his life."

As Richard's days became shorter and shorter, he devoted his energy to his final performance in Stratford, which was recorded on a cassette tape called Ricardo Live.

The charity concert held for the local AIDS consultation and support program will also be his farewell to the community, who watched him grow into a performer and nurture him in his illness. Four hundred people crowded into the rehearsal hall that night to listen to him.

Six months later, in March 1992, many of the same people gathered again in Stratford to attend Richard's funeral.

The tape rolled, and he sang farewell.

Don't cry my love you will be fine

I will stay all night.

Sweet dreams my love till the morning light

And let me be close to you.

Neither Richard March nor Glen Johnson told King’s College what happened.

But in the following years, other incidents did attract the attention of the school.

That date is unforgettable, at least for the only known witness of the event.

It was 10:22 PM on July 29, 1981

"The reason I was so impressed was that if you were a monarchist, you would know that Charles and Dee were married 13 to 14 hours before then," Dave Bead later recalled.

That summer, Bede was a student and campus police officer at King's College University. About 10 years later, his interview with a retired RCMP officer who was investigating Hanki for the Anglican Church recorded his memories.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation obtained a copy of the investigator's notes from his interview with Bidder.

The note said that when Bede was on a tour that night, he saw the lights on in the swimming pool of the King’s Hotel.

Through the window, he saw an adult "carrying" a small person in the shallow water.

When he opened the door of the pool area, the two had already separated. The older one swam deep, and the younger one climbed onto the pool deck.

The interview notes said: "This kid is looking up at me, absolutely terrified, squatting down naked, completely naked."

Bede told investigators that because of his size, the boy "must be a minor" and guessed that he was 12 or 13 years old.

The older person finally swam over, and Bede recognized him as Assistant Professor Hankey.

"I remember saying to myself,'You son of a bitch.'

"He is completely naked, hung on a ladder, completely at a loss. If you have ever talked to this person, he is not a person at a loss."

Bid let Hanki know when he locked the pool, and then left.

Later that night, Hanki appeared at the campus police station and told him that he had severe gout, and his doctor advised him to swim. He did not explain the existence of the boy, and Bede later doubted whether Hankey believed he had not seen the boy.

Bede wrote in the campus police log, “It was discovered or discovered that Pastor Hanki was swimming naked in the swimming pool with his male friend.”

But the next time he was on duty, that page was missing.

The investigator’s notes stated that Bede told his boss Keith McPhail what he saw in the swimming pool and Greg Mulally, who was the director of the personnel department and living on campus at the time.

The news spread quickly, including the neighboring Dalhousie University, where Hankey also taught classics for many years, including after his official retirement.

"A week later I found out that the entire Dahl faculty club knew about it," Note said.

Mulally, who is now a retired lawyer living in British Columbia, said he remembered Bede's report that he saw Hankey swimming naked in a swimming pool with a "underage male who is not a student".

Mulally said that he remembered to tell a higher-level staff member of the university. Although he did not remember who that person was, he thought it was either Henry Roper, the Registrar at the time, or Colin. Stanes, who is the director of the preparatory course.

When Roper received a call at the end of May, he said, "I have absolutely no opinion," and then hung up.

Stanes told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that he had never heard of any allegations of misconduct against Hanki before the subsequent allegations in 1990 resulted in Hanki being disciplined by the school.

According to a report published earlier this year in the Journeyman's Report, John Godfrey, the president of King’s College at the time, asked a senior manager to talk to Hankey and report after learning about the incident in the swimming pool.

The administrator, who was not named in the "Herald" story, said that Hanki swears to him that the incident was completely innocent. When the administrator reported the incident to Godfrey, the president closed the investigation and no written writing was required. report.

When the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called Godfrey from his home in Toronto in July, a woman who answered the phone said that he would not answer any questions about Hankey's allegations.

Mulally said he never received a response from the government after passing on the report.

"No one replied to me. No one said a word," he said.

Bid told the retired RCMP officer that if the school did conduct an investigation, he would not be included—probably the only witness: “They didn't investigate at all. No one asked me anything.”

According to the notes, Bid said that he was afraid of being evicted from the residence and was threatened by Hanji, so he did not report the incident to the police.

"I think I'm scared to stand there, not only in front of Hanji, but the university will come in? They will protect one of their own...rather than get rid of that big-mouthed campus policeman of our own ."

At the end of 1990, a man sat down and wrote an eight-page letter to Arthur Peters, Bishop of the Anglican Church of Nova Scotia.

The letter claimed that Hanki had sexually abused the man for about two years in the late 1970s, starting when he was a teenager.

The bishop made immoral accusations against Hanji and called a rare church court to rule the matter. CBC has obtained a copy of the court decision.

The document stated that Hanki and the young man were swimming naked in the swimming pool of King's College when the attack occurred.

"I felt Wayne's hand on my genitals," it said, quoting the man's original letter to the bishop. "He always continued to attack me verbally or manually while taking a bath. I didn't have any protest."

The unethical allegations clearly stated that Hanji initiated these actions "without invitation or verbal consent". In doing so, he sexually abused and assaulted young people, and that he abused himself. The power of the government violated the "duty of trust as a pastor, teacher, and family." friend. "

During the trial, Hanji pleaded not guilty. Then, according to the decision, the "most unexpected change" occurred in the proceedings.

"Dr. Hankey issued a guilty statement, which we believe constitutes a confession of one or more charges against him."

Hanji’s statement stated that he admitted that the complainant had "generally described sexual behavior" between them.

"I admit and confess my mistakes and sins against them: First, because they violated the sixth commandment as a sexual act outside of the marriage relationship, I also accept it because of the relationship between [the complainant] and me. My age and status are different, and the responsibility for these crimes is heavier on me," he wrote.

Despite the testimony of friends and colleagues of the church at King's and Dalhousie, and there were about 25 letters "overwhelmingly" supporting Hanji "as a priest of the church, as a very outstanding scholar, and as a teacher and willingness to many people Helping friend."

The church deprived Hanji of his right to serve as a pastor and hoped that he would receive spiritual and psychological counseling.

Pastor John Newton, the only surviving judge in the church court case, said the judge wanted to be "completely fair" to everyone in the case.

"But it is clear that serious violations have occurred here, and discipline must be involved," he said.

Newton said that although Hanki is well-known-"I am not sure whether it is famous or notorious"-because of his "big personality" and "aggressive" style, he never listened to it before the bishop called Having said any accusations about him one night, he became a member of the court.

"For me, it's like a bolt from the blue."

When asked whether the fact that the accusation involves two people of the same sex played a role in the discovery of unethical behavior, he said no.

Newton said that the case was very emotional and people shed tears.

"When I leave it every day, I always run out of energy. It's intense."

The impact of these allegations does not stop at the Anglican Church.

The man’s complaint was forwarded to King’s College, where Hanki was the librarian, professor in residence, and associate professor of classical literature.

In April 1991, University President Marion Fry established a committee to investigate these allegations, and the committee submitted a report to her.

However, the report was gone.

As part of a police investigation earlier this year, when the Halifax District Police began asking Hankey’s employees for records, the university was unable to find it.

In a letter from the current president William Lahey to the King’s Community in March this year, the university admitted that the committee’s report was “no longer available”.

"Although there is institutional memory about the work of the committee and supporting documents related to the work of the committee, a thorough search led us to conclude that a copy of the university's report has existed for many years," Lahey wrote in the letter.

Although the report is missing, the punishment for Hanki is well known: "The king's professor was suspended one year after the accusation," the headline of the Halifax Daily News in May 1991 read.

Hanji was suspended from school without pay for one year and was forbidden to live again.

In the minutes of the King’s board meeting, Frye said that the investigation followed the university’s regulations and claimed that “the proceedings are non-confrontational and a real effort has been made to bring justice.”

However, the victim of the case who had previously discussed the matter publicly stated that the university had never contacted him during the investigation.

Frye refused to talk to CBC when he received a call in May.

One of the leaders of the report, King’s Professor Dennis House, also declined to be interviewed. Another then Vice President Angus Johnston passed away in 2017.

An expert and clergyman in the field of sexual abuse had previously told the CBC that the one-year suspension was a "quite typical" institutional response to allegations of sexual assault in 1991, and that sexual abuse was considered "treatable." Conditions" at the time.

Hankey was absent from King's College for two years, including a one-year suspension and one-year vacation.

When he returned as an associate professor of classical literature, Colin Stanes had taken over as the principal.

Stanes said he did not participate in the decision to punish Hanki, but at the time he said that the response of the church and the university seemed to him "the best they could do."

"Of course this is for enough, because he is Wayne Hankey now, and these judgments are not good for him."

Stanes, who served as president from 1993 to 2003, said that he had never heard of any allegations of sexual misconduct or assault involving Hanki before the 1990 allegations were exposed.

He said that he had never heard of anything since, and added that if he heard it, he would be surprised because everyone was touched by the "burning pain" and "endless pain" of the consequences of the 1990 allegations.

"But he has to be very famous," Stanes said of Hankey. "It will make it difficult for people to see things. And he won't become very notorious, it will also make it difficult for people to see things. "

There are other warnings, some dating back to the two decades before Hanji’s church trial and university suspension.

A former pastor complained to the king and the Anglican Church about Hanji's behavior and resigned from his university position when the school failed to take action.

Dan Trevette said he recalled his father, Pastor Don Trevette, who served as a pastor from around 1965 to 1973, talking about his decision to resign in his later years. Don Trivet died in 2013.

"He was just frustrated. People came to him and said it happened in the dormitory and anywhere else, in the swimming pool-it used to be there-he couldn't stop it," Dan Trivet said.

"He doesn't think this is the environment he wants. He can't tolerate working there."

Dan Trevette said he did not know when his father filed a complaint with the church and the king. Both bishops of the diocese had died in the 1970s.

Pastor Sandra Fyfe, the current bishop of the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, said that for privacy reasons, she could not comment on any allegations involving Hankey.

At the time Don Trivett left and in the years before that, the president of King's was Graham Morgan. Morgan contacted him by phone in June. He said he did not remember having such a conversation with Trevette and said he had never heard of Hankey's sexual misconduct at the time.

However, the former president also had conflicts with Hanji.

In 1976, due to Hanji’s actions against him, Morgan asked Hanji to resign from his position as the school preparatory course director, including “providing an ultimatum, and threatening to withdraw if I do not take specific actions.” According to Morgan’s letter to Hanji in March of the same year A letter from Ji. Hankey is seeking to control the recruitment and dismissal of mentors for the project, and hopes that his official job description will be clearer.

Morgan told him that if he did not resign, he would recommend to the board of directors to dismiss him.

Hanji appealed to the university committee, obtained the support of his colleagues, consulted a lawyer, and wrote a 13-page single-spaced typed letter to the bishop and the chairman of the king's board of directors, arguing why he should stay.

The documents regarding the dispute reviewed by CBC did not specify exactly how it was resolved, but Hankey continued to serve as a director until 1978.

In addition to being suspended for one year, Hanki continued to teach at King’s University and neighboring Dalhousie University until his retirement in 2015. He also taught on a contract in Dalhousie until the first accusation was announced on February 1.

Although King's has announced an independent review, Dalhousie has largely remained silent on the allegations of his long-time professor. In a statement issued on February 1, Dalhousie stated that it is committed to providing a safe environment and encouraging anyone who has experienced sexual violence to come forward. The university declined to be interviewed by CBC because the allegations are pending in court.

Hanji is a powerful figure on the King's campus.

As the helm of the preparatory course, Hanji helped the university get rid of its early financial difficulties, and the success of the program sounded today as it continues to attract students from all over the country.

The college’s new library was planned by Hanji and opened in 1991 during his absence, reflecting the school’s desire to become an influential academic institution.

He is a smart manager, an excellent fundraiser, and of course, he is also a respected scholar.

For students, one of the attractions of King's is its close community, not only between students, but also between students and professors. For example, it is not uncommon for professors to interact with students in Wardroom, a campus bar after the lecture.

Hanji is known for hosting evening parties with selected students at home.

Chris Parsons held various positions at King's from 2004 to 2016, including students, paid staff of the Student Union, teaching assistants, and board members. He said that this kind of social grade is good for students, and they can compete with someone who just asked They open up beer with people who teach something they hardly understand.

But he believes that this also contributes to a culture in which inappropriate interactions or relationships between students and professors are accepted.

Stephanie Potter attended the preparatory course at King's and then studied classical literature at Dalhousie from 2001 to 2006. She said that although Dalhousie had clear expectations of the boundary between teachers and students, “but at King’s It’s not like that."

"All other universities are 20 years ahead of them," Porter said.

Both Porter and Parsons wanted to know whether this culture of tolerance has affected King's response to some of the accusations about Hankey over the years. Perhaps they thought some of them were mutually agreed encounters, but they did not.

Today, the Sexual Violence Policy adopted by King’s College in 2018 stated that the university believes that sexual or romantic relationships involving power imbalances may cause harm, and tells teachers to “avoid such relationships”.

The story about Hanki and the swimming pool has been passed down from generation to generation, although the details have blurred over time, like a game where the phone is broken.

Some students were warned by their parents to pay attention to him. Some freshmen were warned by senior students.

Although such stories are sometimes regarded as rumors, Megan Krempa, a student of the current king, stated that the so-called "whispering network"-an informal voice network suppressed by powerful or authoritative figures ——It is essential to protect those who have no feelings. They can speak out.

"The Whispering Network is why I, as a first-year student, knew to avoid Wayne Hankey," said Krumpa, who is studying philosophy and the history of science and technology and participating in the King’s Chapel. Until recently, Hankey had frequented the chapel. .

"The Whispering Network is the only thing that can protect students from Wayne Hanki, until, unfortunately, charges can be filed so that...the situation can be public and credible enough to take action."

Oxford University graduate and Aquinas scholar Hankey is respected and feared by students. He is hailed by many as the supreme orator and outstanding thinker.

When he walked through the hall or through the grass and parking lot in the center of the school campus, he often had a group of students-a small group nicknamed the "God Squad" by others-around him.

His power is enough to make or break the academic career of students.

Hanji is also a harsh professor and a harsh scorer. He mocks and degrades his students in front of his classmates.

"He was really mean," said Anne Theriault, who studied in the Dalhousie Classics Department from 2001 to 2003. "He likes to tell students how stupid they are... This is a constant, low-level abuse."

Hanki's "signature move," Theriault said, was to wander around the classroom, placing his legs on a student's desk and leaning directly on their faces, with his crotch close to the face.

Theriault said Hankey often made sexist remarks. He said that universities were not designed for "female thinking." Women should have their own educational institutions. If he decides, he will not teach women.

Hankey strongly opposed the appointment of women. When King's debated whether to include oral contraceptives in the student health plan in 1987, he publicly opposed the idea, saying it "may encourage more sex."

In his class, male students are sometimes targeted in different ways.

Theriault said Hankey would specifically comment on one of her classmates, saying "you are too suggestive of eating bananas", or tell him "now we are all imagining you in a bathing suit" after mentioning swimming.

The target of such remarks, Jesse Blackwood, told the CBC that he had never been uncomfortable with Hanky’s comments on him.

He said that although he has not kept in touch with his former professor regularly for 10 years, he thinks Hanji is a great teacher and his influence on him goes far beyond the classroom.

"Wayne taught me to think, write, open my heart to the intellectual world and grow, and recognize in the power of intelligence what is beautiful, valuable, worth living and defending, and enjoy happiness in these beauty. I think This is of course the reason why I am grateful to Wayne."

Porter studied medieval philosophy and theology and participated in every course offered by Hankey. He said that he was excellent academically and inspired her to do her best.

"I love him. It's a weird thing—perhaps a bit like Stockholm syndrome—but I love Wayne," Porter said.

She said Hanji is very considerate and kind. When she joins a religious group and vowed to get rid of poverty, she will put down a care package of handmade jam and cheese at her door.

Other students said that Hanji is very generous and willing to help them financially or invite them to deal with the little things around his home and pay the price for their efforts.

But Potter was also very wary of him because he treated female students, and because she had been warned by several people in the first year to watch him closely around male students.

For example, when everyone was drinking, she and other students left their male friends at his Christmas party and felt uneasy, while Hankey was draped on a deck chair, “like a picture of Rubens Paintings".

"It's not like he just behaved like a predator, like all predators we've seen," Potter said.

"But I think when we got there, we kind of thought Wayne was punished and punished."

Although Hanki undoubtedly felt the sting of the suspension in 1991, this is not the last time he has been punished by Kim.

In 2019, after he retired, after a choir member who was also a former student said that Hanki had made an unwelcome sexual tease on him, the university banned Hanki from entering the campus church.

Aaron Shenkman, 31, said that one night in April 2019, Hankey invited him to his house for dinner.

That night, Hanji took the initiative to talk to him about his views on masturbation and the sex life of a family member. Once, Hanki asked for a peck on the cheek, and then grabbed Schenkman by the leg.

Shenkman said that this experience was disturbing, not only because of unwanted physical contact, but also because Hank had previously influenced him and helped shape Shenkman's philosophy and even morality.

Shenkman said that some students almost see Hanki as a saint.

"Most people don't drink that kind of Kool-Aid. If you drink it, I think it's a form of modification," he said. "If you start worshiping at Wayne Temple, your moral compass will be very consistent with him."

So, in Hankey's apartment that night, the lamb, oysters and wine shocked him. The things he cherished—the things he learned from Hanji—are now tarnished.

When Shenkman told the pastor and choir staff that he quit the choir because he felt uncomfortable with Hanki, it affected his friendship and caused divisions in the church community.

Shenkman said that some people seem to be unable to understand why he is upset. Some people expressed surprise that he was "so fragile."

Some people say that no matter what the harm Hanji causes to the community, it would be more harmful to ask him not to go to church.

"Others think Wayne is just an old man, just wanting to enjoy the music in the chapel," Shenkman said. "None of these positions made me feel supported or cared. Instead of caring about the needs of community members, I needed to acquiesce in a person's wishes."

Shenkman said this acquiescence is a long-term problem for King's.

Shenkman said: "Wayne's behavior and overall image are always less serious than Wayne's intelligence and strength as a scholar."

"Somehow, stories about him making students cry in class, bullying visiting speakers, and general irregularities and inappropriateness are collected more like pleasant antiques than convincing accusations... The acceptance of this kind of institution makes it difficult for people to accept his behavior instead of another behavior. An interesting and vibrant part of college life."

Krempa, a student of the current King, said after learning of the situation involving Shenkman-but before the criminal charges were filed this year-she wanted to write an article about Hanki for the student newspaper to force the university to finally consider him and his heritage.

She said that a trusted and supportive professor warned her, "Wayne Hankey will ruin you."

Krempa said that this reputation is part of Hanki's long-term power and payroll for the king and Dalhousie.

"He just knows that no one is really willing to risk his career, livelihood, and personal relationships with others to hold him accountable."

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